# How to start filebeat in windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-start-filebeat-in-windows/82821>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-start-filebeat-in-windows/82821 "2017-04-19T05:41:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![shravan\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@shravan\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shravan_kumar)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-start-filebeat-in-windows/82821/1 "2017-04-19T05:41:05Z")

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Hi,

I've installed logstash and filebeat in windows.  
I started the filebeat service from poweshell using following command, But getting an error .

PS C:\filebeat-5.3.0-windows-x86\> Start-Service filebeat

Error:

Start-Service : Cannot find any service with service name 'filebeat'.  
At line:1 char:14

- Start-Service \<\<\<\< filebeat
  - CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (filebeat:String) [Start-Service], ServiceCommandException
  - FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoServiceFoundForGivenName,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand

Can any body help me on this.

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**Author:** ![maddin2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maddin2016/32/16599_2.png) [@maddin2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maddin2016)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-start-filebeat-in-windows/82821/2 "2017-04-19T07:57:43Z")

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Look if filebeat is in services. `Get-Service` or `Get-Service | ? { $_.Name -match "file" }`. How do you installed filebeat?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-start-filebeat-in-windows/82821/3 "2017-05-17T08:11:38Z")

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